Replies to post #4809 on Distributed Digital Property Board

[aleajactaest]

Hi orda,
That kind of thing. These guys are too late for the market. They just don't know it yet.

[goin fishn]

Orda and Alea

Take a look at what this article says


The U-Prove approach has been tried before, without commercial success. Most companies tried to sell privacy software to consumers, which was the wrong approach.

So Brands is flipping it around by developing a software developers kit that would appeal to businesses and government agencies that want to prevent costly and damaging data breaches on behalf of their customers.

In addition, Brands hopes that by providing a somewhat stripped-down version of his technology under a noncommercial license he can encourage developers to explore its potential applications -– just like RSA Data Security did in the 1980s when it offered free, noncommercial use of its public-key cryptosystem and went on to dominate the online security market.

"They were a small company," Brands says. "Now everybody knows who RSA is."




It can still be a tough sell. Most technical personnel continue to think of attacks from outsiders -- not abuse or collusion by insiders -- as the primary threat to personal data. And for nontechnical personnel, the theory underlying ID tokens can be daunting. Both Brands and Thompson tend to refer to the math behind U-Prove as "magic" rather than going too deep into the details.



Sound familiar?

Maybe some parts of SKS behavior aren't so far from the norm.